Those drivers did a clean uninstall of the existing drivers, rebooted, and then finished installing the new ones, rebooting again afterward.
I went to Realtek's site and downloaded version 2.7 of their audio drivers. My volume meters had to be up to 100% for the OS, and 100% for the media playback software, with my speaker volume knob at about 1/3 level in order to get 'normal' playback volume. Seemed to correlate in some way with CPU load Running Realtek driver dated, version 6.Īudio playback would sometimes be normal and then jump to loud (seemingly twice as loud) briefly during playback, sometimes for just a moment and then sometimes for as long as 10 seconds.I had a similar problem on an HP s2300z slimline system, except the audio was seemingly stuck in the 'turned down' mode and then occasionally would double in volume, if only briefly.
